Robert, Which brand of slides do you recommend? Will have pics tonight of the first bed befor it gets a coat of poly.
Hi Al
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Although when building for others I figure in the cost of these guides, I also use these guides for all my own projects.
Why?
Cause I work too hard at what ever skill level I am at to allow some cheap hardware take away the joy of my hard work by being cheap and weak or misaligned. My time and work deserve good hardware. I usually use Accuride slides or KV, and let me not forget Grant. I have not tried Blum or Grass, dont know if they make slides
but they do make good hinges, as does Salice.
Example: Recently, about 8 months ago, a man came into my shop. He asked me if I would like to buy some hardware from him. He had some samples, mainly drawer slides, door and drawer pulls.
In the bulk pack the full extension slides(10 pairs) were about $4 each, instead of $9 for the 20" full extension drawer guides I usually used. The thing I liked was they were black. But when I bought my 10 and mounted them on a job at the shop, my helper who has done drawers before, bent the ballbearing retainer for the balbearings when trying to insert a drawer, because it was such very thin metal.
We took those drawer guides off and they will sit in a box until I give them away.
Good luck Al, looking forward to the pics!
Shaz